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Volume 55 - Issue 4 - November 1996

Book Reviews—Japan

A Hidden Fire: Russian and Japanese Cultural Encounters, 1868–1926. Edited by J. Thomas Rimer. Stanford: Stanford University Press and Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1995. xix, 289 pp. $45.00.

Narrating the Self: Fictions of Japanese Modernity. By Tomi Suzuki. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. x, 248 pp. $35.00.

Book Reviews—Korea

Korea - Poisoned Prosperity: Development, Modernization and the Environment in South Korea. By Norman R. Eder. Armonk, N.Y. and London: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1996. xiv, 193 pp. $54.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

Enterprise and the State in Korea. By Karl J. Fields. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1995. xiv, 269 pp. $35.00.

Home Was the Land of Morning Calm: A Saga of a Korean-American Family. By K. Connie Kang. New York: Addison-Wesley, 1995. xxi, 309 pp. $23.00 (cloth).

The Telecommunications Revolution in Korea. By James F. Larson. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1995. xix, 336 pp. $59.00 (cloth).

South Korea's Minjung Movement: The Culture and Politics of Dissidence. Edited by Kenneth M. Wells. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995. viii, 247 pp. $35.00.

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Social Role of the Gītā: How and Why. By Satya P. Agarwal. Columbia Md.: Urmila Agarwal, 1993. xvii, 475 pp. $29.95 (cloth).

Patterns of Community Structure in Colombo, Sri Lanka: An Investigation of Contemporary Urban Life in South Asia. By Neville S. Arachchige-Don. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1994. xx, 289 pp. $39.50 (cloth).

The Witch-Hunt; or, The Triumph of Morality. By F. G. Bailey. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1994. ix, 221 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

In Other Words: New Writing by Indian Women. Edited by Urvashi Butalia and Ritu Menon. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1994. xxvii, 196 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $14.95 (paper).

Bengal Divided: Hindu Communalism and Partition, 1932–1947. By Joya Chatterji. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xviii, 303 pp. $59.95 (cloth).

J. R. Jayewardene of Sri Lanka; A Political Biography. Vol. 2: From 1956 to his Retirement. By K. M. de Silva and Howard Wriggins. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994. xiv, 754 pp. $38.00 (cloth).

Bengal Nights: A Novel. By Mircea Eliade. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. 176 pp. $9.95 (paper). - It Does Not Die: A Romance. By Maitreyi Devi. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. 264 pp. $10.95 (paper).

The Language and Style of the Vedic Rsis. By Tatyana J. Elizarenkova. Edited and with a foreword by Wendy Doniger. Albany, N.Y.: State University Press, 1995. ix, 331 pp. $74.50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Sitar and Sarod in the 18th and 19th Centuries. By Allyn Miner. Wilhelmshaven: Florian Noetzel Verlag, 1993. 265 pp.

Poetry as Theology: The Śrīvaiṣṇava Stotra in the Age of Rāmānuja. By Nancy Ann Nayar. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrasowitz, 1992. xiii, 308 pp. DM 82.00 (cloth).

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